Brewfest 2013 Guide (September 20 - October 6)

Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brewers have to offer!

During Brewfest, players can acquire the title Brewmaster and collect fun mounts like Swift Brewfest Ram! Like 2012, there are epics available:

Ram Racing Quests

Ram Racing is a fun Brewfest minigame where players try to go as fast as possible and collect numerous Portable Brewfest Keg before their time on the ram runs out. After initial one-time quests, players can test their ram-riding skills daily--the better they are, the more Brewfest Prize Token they can collect.

There and Back Again or There and Back Again: Awards 10 Brewfest Prize TokenStart & End:Ram Master Ray or Neill RamsteinThis quest is a little challenging. You are once again granted a temporary ram mount that lasts 4 minutes and you must use the Ram Racing Reins and your new-found skill of ram riding to receive and deliver kegs of brew between the goblins. You must travel down the path, minding your speed and fatigue, and you will be thrown a Portable Brewfest Keg by either Bok Dropcertain or Flynn Firebrew. Simply return the keg to the questgiver three times to successfully complete the quest. I highly recommend moving as quickly as possible and stopping momentarily at every barrel of apples to insure you do not reach 100 fatigue. After completing this quest, the questgiver will allow you to help him out one more time per day.

Every 18 Hours: 'Do you still need some help moving kegs from the crash site... ?': Awards 2 Brewfest Prize Token per turn-inStart & End:Ram Master Ray or Neill RamsteinThis isn't exactly a quest, but is a very good option for accumulating more Brewfest Prize Token. This "quest" is available after successfully completing There and Back Again. Simply speak to the NPC again and offer to help him out again. The questgiver will give you another ram with which you must retrieve and return more kegs, awarding 2 Brewfest Prize Token per loop and 30 additional seconds. You can do this as many times as possible until your ram mount expires at 15 minutes. You can only offer to help him once every 18 hours, and only after completing the initial quest.

Daily Quests

Bark for ________!: Awards 15 Brewfest Prize TokenStart & End:Cort Gorestein / Ja'ron or Daran Thunderbrew / Becan BarleybrewThis quest can be started at either of the rivaling breweries and may only be completed for one brewery per day. Horde players can choose between Bark for Drohn's Distillery! or Bark for T'chali's Voodoo Brewery! and Alliance players can choose between Bark for the Barleybrews! or Bark for the Thunderbrews!. It does not matter which brewery you choose to bark for, and you can even choose a different one each day (though don't tell the other guys)! For this quest you are yet again given the ram and Ram Racing Reins: this time you must run throughout your capital city, visiting different designated checkpoints within a 4 minute time limit. This quest can be rather challenging, as there are no apple barrels to renew your ram's fatigue so it's best to keep a steady (albeit annoyingly slow) pace as you travel throughout your city. Once you reach the fourth location, provided your time, many players opt to cancel the ram buff and simply mount on a regular epic mount to go return the quest.

The "Brew of the Month" Club Membership (Alliance / Horde) starts a quest that is completed in your respective faction's major city and enrolls your character in the Brew of the Month Club where you will receive a new brew in the mail every month, delicious drinks with quite interesting side-effects!January: Wild Winter Pilsner, gives the buff The Beast Within that makes you roar

Brewfest Prize Tickets

If you want to buy every single item available with coins, you will need 1629 Brewfest Prize Token (1829 for EU servers for Wolpertinger's Tankard). The pets are BoA, so if you are doing this on alts, you do not need to buy additional ones for collecting purposes.

On your first kill of each day, you will earn Justice Points and also be awarded a Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest, which has a chance to contain awesome items. You will be awarded at level 90 as well. You can get only one Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest per day, so there is no longer a point to farming the boss once you don't need any of the trinkets he drops. Simply queue up and kill him once per day per character for your chance at the mounts or other rare items.

Coren's Loot

Coren Direbrew himself drops epic quality trinkets. These are great for helping out a new alt's item level and can be upgraded with Valor Points.

The first time you defeat Coren Direbrew each day, you will be awarded a Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest. This treasure chest has a chance of containing Coren Direbrew's non-trinket drops. You can even get more than one of these items in the same chest, or less happily, a duplicate item you already own.

Brew of the YearFor this achievement, you must drink one of each of the 12 beers featured in the Brew of the Month club. You will receive a new brew at the beginning of every month and will only be able to purchase that brew for the duration of that month--be careful you don't miss one. This achievement will take a full year to get, but thankfully it is no longer required for the Brewmaster achievement.

Almost Blind LuckThis achievement is just a Brewfest version of Going Down?, so any strategies/locations specified for that will apply. Just remember to get really, really intoxicated beforehand (ie. "completely smashed") and try to survive the fall.

Rank 8 and above players in the Brawler's Guild can also try their luck at brews from Mozzle Gearbeer and Haxxil Drinkmeister in the special VIP area. Their goods rapidly cycle, but they sell all the Brewfest drinks.

The Brewfest DietFor this achievement, simply sample all of the foods available from the Brewfest vendors. You need to be level 65 to complete this achievement and eat The Golden Link.

Comments

Comment by thaedris20

well hopefully since i have so many 90s this year Ill get one of the mounts. Its sad that there isnt a new keg this year with an achievement :(

Comment by Adamsm

on 2013-09-20T12:08:41-05:00

Nice updated guide, and love the Noxy Brew Pandaren.

Comment by perculia

on 2013-09-20T12:11:53-05:00

So while there weren't a ton of changes for 2013, we went back and improved various sections--achievements like Strange Brew, ram racing details, descriptions of vanity items like all the Brew of the Month beers, how many prize tokens you need, and which quests aren't available in EU regions.

Comment by Mirgul

on 2013-09-20T12:30:22-05:00

While we've got Orgrimmar under siege, let's run in through the front door and shout about the wonders of beer. Seems legit. :)

Comment by Kazlehoff

on 2013-09-20T12:34:58-05:00

Noxxy's artwork always makes me smile. every time.

Comment by tazar

Comment by Zoeteklem

on 2013-09-20T12:37:35-05:00

It seems strange to me that they didn't upgrade the trinkets this year to something like 496 or something close? Don't get me wrong, these trinkets are perfect for alts. It just seems that since the release of 5.4, there are so many new options for level 90 alts to gear up with.

Comment by Interest

on 2013-09-20T12:59:42-05:00

Yay it's this time of the year again. Love this holiday.

Maybe I can get some more remotes ;P

Comment by Iceveiled

on 2013-09-20T13:06:58-05:00

I'll probably go just for the wacky music and to get my main good and drunk seeing as how I already got the meta achievement years ago. Between timeless isle and those trinkets, it sure is easy to get alts all purpled out these days.

Comment by Iceveiled

on 2013-09-20T13:09:21-05:00

...or at least 476 to make them on-par with entry level epics. 470 is just a strange gear level.

Comment by vladont

on 2013-09-20T13:33:49-05:00

The ram racing has been updated.The apple buckets are no longer solid objects on the ground, you can now run directly trought them and they remove the fatigue stacks instantly. You no longer have to run around them wasting precious seconds waiting for the apples to work :)

Comment by AnrDaemon

on 2013-09-20T14:05:37-05:00

What exactly the mentioned "restrictions", that restrict fun from EU realms?

And you were never required to run around apple baskets, could have just jumped over, and they were always instantly removing debuff, but server could lag and won't register the buff.Right now, it seems to be all proper.

Comment by AnrDaemon

on 2013-09-20T14:08:26-05:00

Another question: I may be mistaken, and I apologize if that's just my terrible dreams, but there was rumors that alliance is no longer able to obtain brewfest Kodo? Et vice versa for Horde and Ram.

Comment by felhunter

on 2013-09-20T14:09:48-05:00

well another disapointing holiday, wish they added some more new additions too it.like different quests, instead of the same old boring fight a new one that's different.

just some changes each year, too keep it more entertaining for older players.

Comment by Zivhayr

on 2013-09-20T14:16:24-05:00

Yet another dissapointing brewfest year. Not even a new limited edition mug.

Comment by perculia

on 2013-09-20T14:17:28-05:00

There's some quests that have to be changed to meet EU ratings--there's a bunch of user comments on those pages talking about how they have to do different things to get the pet, for example.

Comment by h2ohard

on 2013-09-20T14:25:06-05:00

Yeah another Year without a tankard what a bummer!

Comment by wowilovehead

on 2013-09-20T14:50:21-05:00

So in Summary:-no new mounts-no new pets-no new achievements-updated trinkets (only 470 ilvl tho)

Comment by yukiusako

on 2013-09-20T14:53:16-05:00

Anyone else disappointed that they didn't add a bunch of Pandaren stuff to this holiday? After all, they are the brew masters...at least add some panda quests, or even a whole extra new part of the festivities that takes place near Halfhill! :(

Comment by Alkony

on 2013-09-20T14:57:15-05:00

They didn't upgrade any of the gear? And the weapons are still 85 with Cata stats and can't be mogged. Wow, and I thought last year was a problem.

I guess the trinkets might be useful for the second slot since the curios are unique equipped. *shrug*